Senior Software Engineer, Backend

The TP ICAP Group is a world leading provider of market infrastructure. Our purpose is to provide clients with access to global financial and commodities markets, improving price discovery, liquidity, and distribution of data, through responsible and innovative solutions.Through our people and technology, we connect clients to superior liquidity and data solutions.

The Group is home to a stable of premium brands. Collectively, TP ICAP is the largest interdealer broker in the world by revenue, the number one Energy & Commodities broker in the world, the world's leading provider of OTC data, and an award winning allto-all trading platform. The Group operates from more than 60 offices in 27 countries. We are 5,300 people strong. We work as one to achieve our vision of being the world's most trusted,
innovative, liquidity and data solutions specialist.

Role Overview

As a Senior Software Engineer at TP ICAP you will be part of a talented team delivering business critical software for the internal broking division and their external customer base.

You will work within an Agile environment, from design through to implementation, with a strong focus on Continuous Improvement whilst working collaboratively as part of self-organising, cross-functional team. There will be a focus on continuous integration and deployment.

Role Responsibilities

. Work closely with the Architect/Principal to build solutions that align to the IT strategy/vision.

. Provide support and mentoring to other members of the team.

. Work in partnership with QA counterpart to ensure the delivery of quality software.

. Promote delivery of quality software - unit tests, code reviews etc.

. Experiment with multiple technologies and methodologies as part of delivery, to help guarantee the best solution and approach.

. Deliver against both Functional and Non-functional requirements.

. Take Ownership/Accountability for development of key features and drive to completion.

. Communicate effectively on progress and ensure impediments are raised early to minimise impact on the delivery.

Experience / Competences

Essential

. Degree or +7 years equivalent industry experience, preferred financial or trading systems.

. Expert in Java (version 8 through to the latest release), with a strong understanding of language enhancements and ecosystem evolution.

. Extensive use of Spring Boot and Spring modules - spring-beans, spring-messaging

. Expert knowledge of Hibernate framework.

. Skilled in relational databases (e.g., MSSQL Server, MySQL), including schema design and optimization.

. Demonstrable experience in message and event-based asynchronous messaging.

. Capable of writing and maintaining a distributed real-time system.

. Skilled in designing components of a distributed system.

. Knowledge and use of AWS (or a similar cloud platform), including deployment and management of assets.

. Familiarity with Gitlabs/GitHub, CI/CD build pipelines, and package management.

. Knowledgeable in Jira or similar issue management system.

. Adept at Agile working practices, strong communication including collaboration with local and remote team members.

. Appreciation of the full SDLC, proactive involvement in shaping the delivery prior and during development, through QA phase, and post-release support.

. Excellent attention to detail, highly organised with a proactive and independent approach to problem solving and innovative solutions.

. Delivery-focused and pragmatic, capable of working on multiple tasks simultaneously and managing deadlines.

. Critically evaluate and offer challenge to design or approach to achieve the best outcome for the project.

. Delivering a proof of concept (POC) to the required level of detail to validate an approach.

. Experience in building scalable and maintainable automated testing solutions for complex systems

Desired

. Background and experience of financial/ trading platforms and knowledge of financial markets

. Knowledge of FIX protocol and ability to handle FIX interactions.

. In-depth knowledge of AWS services.

. Experience with serverless architecture and microservices.

. Experience with TDD, BDD or similar approaches to specifying requirements and design.